ISO22301:2012 Business Continuity

What would you do? Early one morning you receive a call, it is the first person into the office and they have found a real mess. The office has been burgled, there is paperwork scattered all over the floor, and the computers have been stolen. After initial thoughts of anger and frustration inevitably you will find yourself asking "how is this going to affect the business?" Typically the answer will be a lot more than you would think!

Experience shows that the biggest problem will not be an inability to continue the day to day operations of the business, at least in the short term. The effect that a break in, flood, fire or other disaster can have is usually most evident in what it does to cash flow. To put things right you have to start spending money, the faster you spend it the faster things are back to normal. In many cases to get speed you need to pay over the odds. Yes, this is money that you may get back somewhere down the track from an insurance company, but when and how much is often disappointing.

Penarth Management offers a cost effective audit based service to help any business understand the risks they face, and identify the steps they need to take to prepare for the unexpected. Our proven approach allows us to work with you to quickly highlight IT and administrative procedures that put you at risk, and then develop a plan of actions that will minimise these risks.

One key area of focus for this service is IT, as businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on technology often without realising the extent. Equipment does not have to be stolen or damaged in a major event like a fire, a failed hard disk in a critical machine can as easily leave a company crippled, inability to access orders, email or accounting systems can have a serious effect on your business. Recovery of the machine and the data becomes the main objective, but where do you start? Where are you going to source replacement equipment from? Do you know where the software, licence keys and backup data are? Who is going to do the work rebuilding the equipment? The more answers you know in advance the faster you will recover the situation. Penarth Management will help you identity the questions and find the answers.

There is a Standard, ISO22301 Business Continuity Management which sets out the principles of which will ensure that disasters are overcome systematically and efficiently. Penarth Management can help you implement such a system if required.

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